Combined May 2010 traffic announced for Piedmont and PSA

US Airways has announced combined May 2010 traffic figures for its Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines subsidiaries operating under the US Airways Express brand.

Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled 188,330,000, up 1.9% compared with May 2009’s figure of 184,860,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) were cut by 2.5% to 259,279,000 from 265,823,000.

These figures led to a load factor increase of 3.1 percentage points to 72.6% in May 2010 from May 2009’s 69.5%. The total number of passengers carried by the pair was 707,623 compared with 675,285 last May, a 4.8% increase.